It was literally, as Livy says, a "colluvies omnium gentium," which rolled down from the Alps, under his direction, to overwhelm the Romans on their own hearths. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
"Non tamen telis vulnerat ista agyrtarum colluvies, sed theriaca quadam magis perniciosa, non pyrio, sed pulvere nescio quo exotico certat, non globulis plumbeis, sed pilulis aeque lethalibus interficit.". From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
As much rhubarb as may induce a daily evacuation, should be given to remove the colluvies of indigested materials from the bowels; which might otherwise increase the distress of the patient by the air it gives out in putrefaction, or by producing a diarrhoea by its acrimony; the putridity of the evacuations are in consequence of the total inability of the digestive powers; and their delay in the intestines, to the inactivity of that canal in respect to its peristaltic motions. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Nor shall I need here to mention the colluvies of. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
Denique colluvies universa Macedonius, Pelagius. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities] Reference
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